Creating Positive Childhood Experiences: What Parents and Caregivers Need to Know

Books about Feelings:

  • My Many Colored Days (Dr. Seuss)
  • How Do you Feel (Lizzy Rockwell)
  • Llama Llama Mad at Mama (Anna Dewdney)
  • The Rabbit Listened (Cori Doerrfeld)
  • Where Happiness Begins (Eva Eland)
  • Breathing Makes It Better (Christopher Willard and Wendy O’Leary)
  • Feelings (Libby Walden)
  • The Barefoot King (Andrew Jordan Nance)
  • The Unbudgeable Curmudgeon (Matthew Burgess)
  • Big Feelings (Alexandra Penfold)

Book that can help with security and attachment:

  • The Invisible String (Patrice Karst)

Books for children who have experienced trauma and/or separations:

  • You Weren’t With Me (Chandra Ghosh Ippen)
  • A Terrible Thing Happened (Margaret Holmes)
  • Once I Was Very Very Scared (Chandra Ghosh Ippen)

Book about different families:

  • And That’s Their Family! (Kailee Coleman)